I don’t want to get into the rights and wrongs of the move. The drivers seem to be efficiency and cost savings and that is not our bag. One observation I will make is that on the whole County Councillors that we deal with tend to be more corporate, more professional and less personal than the District Councillors we deal with (Unitary and Metropolitan’s are a mixed bag). This is not a criticism, nor unexpected, but I would advise councillors in the new County Unitaries not to lose the personality and time for constituents that District Councillors seemed to have.

On another aspect I am intrigued how Bedfordshire,Devon, and Suffolk will deal with their County Halls. I see Nottinghamshire craftily ensured that their County Hall is just south of the Trent in their own authority, but Leicestershire seem to remain in the Leicester unitary authority.

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